You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.

I like the Whisky old an the women young

What we most love is not what we know, but what knows us and draws us. . . . (78)

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

Don't push the river. Just go with it.

You know, I think that we are going to be OK. Look, Malia is 10, so three years from now she is 13. Who knows what happens to teenagers?

One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.

Abe shook his head, and now the smile was gone altogether. "That's not the reason either. Don't lie to me little girl." I felt my hackles going up. "And don't interrogate me, old man.

I even believe [Donald Trump] won a little after - after the election rethinking, I think if we'd spent a little more time in Minnesota, we would've won Minnesota.

I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

Let us leave tomorrow's trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.